IRELAND.
Before the levee held by the Lord-Lieutenant on Monday, his Excel- lency received the customary addresses from the Corporation and Uni- versity of Dublin. In reply to a clause in the former, objecting to the abolition of the Viceroyalty, Lord St. Germans said- " I an j?ersua.ded that the abolition of the office of Lord-Lieutenant would be productive of much practical inconvenience, and of little countervailing pmetinsl advantage. I am, moreover, persuaded that the maintenance of this office is desired by the great body of the Irish people. I therefore think that its abolition would be highly inexpedient. This opinion I expressed in the House of Commons nine years ago ; and I have seen no reason since to alter it."
The Derby Government suspended Mr. Kirwan, a Roscommon Magis- trate, for alleged impropriety of conduct at the late general election. He has just been restored to office by Earl St Germans.
As a counterpoise to the restoration of Mr. Kirwan, Earl St. Germans
requested the Lord Chancellor to replace Lord Roden and the two Messrs. Beers in the commission of the peace ; at the same time he notified his intention by letter to Lord Roden, stating that the necessity for his sus- pension exists no longer. Lord Roden replied, that he could not admit that any just cause for his suspension ever existed. Consequently, the Lord-Lieutenant has been compelled to withdraw his offer of restitution. How the Messrs. Beers have acted is not stated.
A fax market was opened for the first time in Cork last week. It was held in the Corn Exchange, and was pronounced decidedly successful, Thirty tons of fax were brought to the market, and that which had been properly manufactured obtained highly remunerative prices : for example,
Mr. John O'Brien produced 351 stone on an English acre, which sold for 18/. 12s. 9d. ; expense of culture, &c., 81. 10s. ; profit, 104 2s. 9d. Those producers who did not obtain remunerative prices had greatly deteriorated their flax from ignorance as to the process of preparation : no doubt, they swill benefit by what they saw and heard at the market.
Mr. Feeley and Mr. Roche, students at the Galway Queen's College, have been sent to prison, the one for a month, the other for ten days, for assaulting Mr. Murphy with a gutty percha whip. The fracas originated thus. A lecture was given by Colonel Layard, at the request of the mem- bers of the Royal Institution ; a regimental band played some music, and among other pieces "God save the Queen." The last was hissed by several persons, while others kept on their hats. Mr. Feeley was one of the hissers. Mr. Murphy denominated him a "blackguard" for such conduct, and subsequently refused to withdraw the expression. Feeley obtained a whip, and when he met Mr. Murphy in the street, demanded the retracts- tion of the word - Mr. Murphy again refused, and Feeley assaulted him with the whip. Mr. Roche accompanied Mr. Feeley, and was thus adjudged to be "aiding and abetting."
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